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“Mobile” is a tricky topic, if for no other reason than the fact that tablets are mobile devices and smartphones are mobile devices. And, when it comes to web sites, even ones that have brilliantly adaptive/responsive designs, the user experience (and, often, the user’s intent) can vary quite a bit …

I’ve developed a pretty serious crush on Optimizely as an A/B and multivariate testing platform — it’s hard to beat the ease-of-deployment and ease-of-use. Just like any platform — web analytics, tag management, voice of the customer, testing, or otherwise — that is implemented with “just one line of Javascript,” …

I’m now writing a monthly piece for Practical eCommerce, and the experience has been refreshing. At ACCELERATE in Chicago earlier this year, April Wilson‘s winning Super ACCELERATE session focused on digital analytics for smaller companies. Her point was that a lot of the online conversation about “#measure” (or “#msure”) focuses …

I got into a discussion of sampling in Google Analytics with SEO expert and Web PieRat Jill Kocher earlier this year, which led to some profile/filter noodling that seemed worth sharing. Specifically, Jill and I were discussing how, in the world of search engine optimization — where the long tail can be …

I’m starting to think that page overlays are the new page-level clickstream — they’re what well-meaning-but-inexperienced business users see in their minds’ eyes as a quick and clear path to deep insights when, generally, they are not. I’ve had a couple of clients over the last year ask for overlays …

Having recently become a Google Analytics Certified Partner, we got to participate in our first Partner Summit out in Mountainview, California, last week. It was unfortunate that the conference conflicted with Semphonic’s XChange conference (There really aren’t that many digital analytics conferences, are there? Maybe I should publish a proposed schedule …